Restoring Women to Cultural Memory In ancient paganism, the - TopicsExpress



          

Restoring Women to Cultural Memory In ancient paganism, the word Crone denoted an elder priestess or tribal matriarch; a cognate word is crown, the symbol of a leader. The word was made pejorative when the Christian Church redefined all elder priestesses of the old religion as malevolent witches. Similarly, the word hag was once derived from Greek hagia—a holy woman—and also became a Christianized term for a witch. -Barbara G. Walker
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:29:53 +0000

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